Re: Synchronet External Programs (Linux)
  By: mark lewis to Digital Man on Wed Jul 03 2019 04:42 pm

 >
 >  On 2019 Jul 03 12:56:30, you wrote to Zenobyte:
 >
 >  >> In the doors/external programs section, for some strange reason, I have
 >  >> to press enter to get into the first menu entry.
 >  >>
 >  >> Works without hitting enter from the second entry onwards though.
 >
 >  DM> Do you have 10 or more programs available? If so, then hitting '1', the
 >  DM> input function will need to wait and see if you are then going to hit
 >  DM> '0' (for 10) or hit enter (for 1).
 >
 > sounds like we should be doing what all good programmers do and start
 > numbering them from zero 
 > then we can still have two columns of five each but all will be hotkeyed 
 > or maybe have leading zeros on single digit options?
 >
 >  DM> If you hit '2', but you have less than 20 programs, then it's smart
 >  DM> enough to know it doesn't need to wait for '0' or enter.
 >
 > it there a way we can use letters or strings instead of numbers?

exec/xtrn_sec.js is pretty easily modified. Do what you like! :-)

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